The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1929, Page 1

aS de Re + Be | Moonlite Cruise Tonight Will Be Demonstration for Support of the Daily Worker THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Company, In 4) FINAL CITY EDITION New York City, + by mail, ‘ork, by mail, $6.00 Vol. VI, No. 132 “NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1929 ‘Price 3 Cents BUCH AND SCHECHTER LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON MASS MEETING; TO ie ee sea SPEAK TEN. Y. MONDAY EVENING Visit Marion Strikers; Urge UTW Rank and File to Participate in Charlotte Conference NTWU Youth Section to Send Delegation to, N. Y. Labor Sports Union Convention e Daily Means to ‘What th In the great struggles that are developing in the South, the Daily Worker is playing an important role. By virtue of its being the one daily labor paper in the English lan- guage it is the only paper that can be read by the southern workers in industry, all of whom are native Americans. Its popularity among the textile workers increases every day. It is anxiously followed by the workers active in the Bessemer | City textile conference and is being read by workers in many other industries that have recently grown up in the south. Botany Mills in Passaic Strike | ILA GUARDIA TOPS FIVE MORE JUTENANKING TO TRY THIRTY STRIKE BREAKING WORKERS KILLED NINE SOVIET CITIZENS MOB, SAYS WICKS IN INDIA STRIKE |Aaron Was Lawyer for Walk-out Reported to SEIZED IN HARBIN RAID BeSpreading Despite Report U.S.S.R. Invaded Unconfirmed, but Police Brutality | Japan Orders Citizens to Evacuate Red Army Paper Denounces Imperialist GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 8—Vera Bush and Arfty Schech- ter, two of the three women strike leaders recently released on | bail pending their trial on murder charges which grew out of | It is the only source from which these wrokers can get information regarding the labor movement from day to day. It is fast becoming an organizing force there. Since the struggles of the southern workers directly affect the workers of the north it becomes of primary im- portance for the workers everywhere that the Daily continue | building up its influence among the unorganized masses in the south. Surely no class conscious worker can fail to realize what a major calamity it would be for the Gastonia defendants to go on trial without the Daily Worker to combat the poison of the capitalist press. Yet there is grave immediate danger of the Daily being forced to suspend because of insufficient funds to keep going through this difficult period. |ruption,” said Wicks. Coler Wirwam Grafter Gov’t May Send Troops Walker and Thomas 50 Strikers Jailed Tickets Labor Enemies Terror “[t is eminently fitting that La| BOMBAY, India, Aug. 8. — Re- Guardia should have as his running ports from Calcutta state that five mates two such labor haters as more jute strikers have been killed Harold G. Aron and Bird S. Coler,” | and at least thirty more wounded in said H. M. Wicks, Communist can- | struggle between the police and the didate for president of the board | workers today. of aldermen. Aron is a typical) Fifty strikers are reported to jproduct of capitalist political cor-/have been jailed during raids by “He figured | the police in the mill district yes- prominently in the Passaic strike |ierday but there is no indication of 1926 as general counsel for the! that the terror is in any way halt- |Botany mills. It was through his|ing the walk out movement which |department that the whole strike-|is said to be “rapidly spreading.” |breaking campaign was directed] As in the Bauria jute strike the workers are showing the greatest against the textile strikers. He in south to aid in the organiza-® tional work for the Rec gent| | C W TH 6S IN Conference, Oct. 12 and 13, and Air Ua a whom she is one. Both Schechter and Bush _ will Third Ave. Joe Harrison’s mother, two bro-_ pect to return tonight. Harrison was wounded in the attack on the| for the Charlotte Conference, which will inaugurate a great drive for meeting of the Ozark mill workers, Martin at the Rex mill and Gerson the raid on the tent colony early in June, left here tonight for the first mass meeting of their tour, scheduled for tomorrow | night in Washington, D. C. Sophie Melvin will remain in the help the International Labor De-) fense raise funds for the defense of the 23 arrested textile leaders, of speak in. New York City Monday) * night at a huge welcome rally inthe Second Attack in Week Central Opera House, 67th St. and| on Rochester Worker thers and cousin arrived from Pas-| saic, N. J., yesterday, to visit him in the Gaston County jail. They ex- tent colony, Mass meetings continue daily, throughout the South, in preparation | better conditions and wages in the mills. Tonight Clarina Michaelson will be the principal speaker at the in Charlotte. Hugo Oehler and Wells will also speak at the Char- lotte meeting. The youth section of the Loray| local of the N. T. W. U. hold daily classes on organization in the tent colony in Arlington, with Gerson as instructor. The youth section de- cided at its meeting yesterday to send délegates tothe Labor Sport’) Union convention and and athletic | An meet in New York on Aug. 21. athletic meet and dance is planned for Aug. 17 in Bessemer City, to precede the departure of the dele- gation. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 8.— Peter Teem, secretary of the Trade Union Educational League here, and former president of the Pressers Local 200, of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers, was murderously attacked by a hired gangster of the Hillman-Chatman regime this morning at 7, while he was on his way to work. Teem is in a critical situation in the General Hospital. The gangster rushed from he- hind with a large hammer, slug- ging Teem in the back of the head. The attack is the second this week. On Tuesday Teem and 4 other militants, Horowitz and Eis- ner, were attacked by A, C. W. thugs while they were distribut- ing leaflets before the Fashion | Park factory. These repeated attacks upon militants have been made in an effort to crush the growing rank and file movement in Rochester that has arisen to fight the Amal- gamated machine, which has joined with the bosses to increase the speed up and institute wage Every class conscious worker should at once send all he can to the Daily so that we can continue the fight. With the developing mass movement in the United States it is only a question of time that we can place the Daily on a paying basis, but until that time comes we must be helped through this period. Rush funds by wire or air mail at once to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Sauare, New York City. Last Call and Costume Ball on Hudson | |Support of Affair Tonight Will Repay Both _ Workers, Daily; Tickets $1.50—$2.00 at Dock | 3 Defendants to Describe Big Gastonia Trial Tonight’s the night! For weeks the Daily Worker and | the management committee have, | been working like muckers in prep- | aration for the moonlite cruise and |costume ball on the Hudson tonight. | |No boulder has been left unturned | |in the effort to make this the age outstanding proletarian affair in |was campaign manager for the open ‘shop fountain pen manufacturer, |Frank D. Waterman, republican ;candidate for mayor in the last city campaign. At present he is in the |banking business as president of the International Germanic Trust |company of 26 Broadway, which re- \cently took over t'-e shady affairs of the City Trust company. Coler, Tammany Crook. “As to B. S. Coler,” continued Wicks, “he establish-4 a reputation to Moonlite Cruise oper Sih e co |most venemous red-baiters and ene- |mies of labor in the country. A |product of the Tammany strike- breaking organization, Coler be- jeame involved too publicly in the | Kings ecun: hospital scandal and was forced to resign as commis- _|sioner of public welfare for divert- ing funds appropriated for the hos- pital. The swindle was plainly a |part of Tammany policy, but it |raised such a scandal that someone had to be the goat, so Coler was | sacrificed. Now this same Tam- many grafter and labor baiter is placed on the La Guardia ticket as | candidate for pr--ident of the board |of aldermen. determination in the face of police brutality and deliberate acts of pro- vocation, beating of pickets, riding down men and women strikers, etc. Police guards were reenforced to- day and permanent patrols have mills, At the same time there have been rumors that Joshi, reactionary trade union leader, notorious for his services to the government in a number of other strikes, may in- been stationed in the vicinity of the Attempt to Grab Chinese Eastern R.R. Further provocation of the Soviet Union by the imper powers, using the Nanking bandit government as their ins ment, was begun yesterday with the indictment of thirty-nine Soviet citizens seized in the illegal raid on the consulate at Harbin on May 27. The thirty-nine prisoners are formally charged with Communist plotting, the blanket charge that is | government in carrying out the behests of the imperialists. | |They have all been committed to trial. The announcement of the indict- ment comes simultaneously with un- confirmed reports that Chinese | a tory and are engaging Red Army patrols thirty miles beyond Pogra- | . ae ., Michnaya on the road to Vladivo- 'Anti-Imperialists Hit | stox. Heavy. concentration of troops Portes Gil Gov’t. MERIDA, Yucatan, Aug. 8—Tak- ing the hint from its Wall Street | masters, the Portes Gil government | of Mexico, has decided to get rid of Gen. Augustino Sandino, head of the continues on the Manchurian fronts, west and north. At the same time the Japanese | government is reported to have or- dered all its nationals to leave the Manchurian sector, in view of im- icaraguan Army of Independence, pending military operations. The who has been residing in Mexico for |8¢tion of the Japanese government, |the past few months. Sandino and | 0M of the imperialist powers, mas ! [his aides have been sent from this |M& against the Soviet Union, is con- firmed, however. city of Valladolid, from where they |Sidered extremely significant as in- Other reports state that the gov- | are scheduled to be deported to Be- | licating how imminent the imperial- ernment is planning to send troops|iize, British Honduras, for intern-| ist attack is believed to be by the |to the Caleutta district to put down | ment. | aggressors themselves. | the strike by force and reopen the | mills, CALL FOR UNITED TENANTS’ FIGHT Harlem Mass Meeting tervene in the present situation. The rumors have not been con- +. We Sandino, from the moment of his) a | arrival in Mexico, has made it clear| Denounce Imperialist Attack. |that he has made no compromise MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 8.— with Yankee imperialism. Enthusi-| Under the heading “Fox Tail and astic crowds of workers in several | Wolf's Teeth,” the Red Star, organ ities warmly cheered his deruncia-|of the Red Army, today publishes a of his native land and his declava- tions that he would continue un- | swervingly the fight to liberate Nic-| It says: aragua. | “The Soviet Union cannot allow The Mexican government origin-|the seizure of the Chinese Eastern | the: foreign imperialists for the jure of the Chinese Eastern Railroad. ‘tions of the Wall Street oppressors | Scathing attack on the campaign of the memory of New York workers. | Out of that ale of terror, brutal- Assails La Guardia. ally granted Sandino and his com- | by Kuomintang bandits or its seizure + + * cuts. The Peter Stuyvesant, largest | ity, frame-up and heroic struggle Plans Wide Activity panions the right of political asylum by imperialist robbers. We shall Visit Marion Strikers. MARION, N. C., Aug. 8.—Greet- ings to the textile strikers here and wishes for the success of their strike The attacks became more fre- quent when the local machine found that they could not smother the fighting spirit of the work- ers by forcing them out of the shops. steamer in the fleet of the Hudson | that has grown up around the word | River Day Line, has been chartered | Gastonia emerge the names of three |for the cruise. Unlike the seagoing | women, three women of the working | trimming politician of the worst “La Guardia, republican candidate | for mayor, is nothing more than a| | struggle against one as against the | other.” There is intense and growing in- | peste this appears now to have been ja trap. What the Portes Gil syco- Amid the enthusiasm of hundreds | phants of U. S. imperialism intended | was that Sandino should give up his hacks ordinarily used for such ex-| cursions, this boat is scarcely two years old, a veritable floating pal- class who have been singled out, to- gether with 20 men, by the North Carolina mill owners for victimiza- of Negro and white tenants the con- (Continued on Page Five) A ference on housing, called by the Harlem Tenants’ League, came to a| | dignation against the imperialist at- tempts to capture the prize, the Chi- |nese Eastern Railroad, at the same |activities against the Wall Street government, were brought by National Textile | Workers Union organizers yesterday | as they passed through on their or-| ganizing tour to mobilize the tex- tile workers for the Charlotte Con- PITTSBURGH IN ference, Oct. 12 and 13, The N. T. W. U. organizers warned the strikers against the sell- (Continued on Page Five) pala - FAKERS ‘DEPLORE? take Police Notes For Possible Frame-Up | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 8.—Two tae |thousand workers whom the police jhad kept moving, surged about a Only Work ers Can jhurriedly erected platform at a Save Gastonia Victims street meeting here yesterday, and tenthusiastically cheered Communist speakers who declared their deter- GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 8.—The mination to carry on the meeting re- gardless of the police interference. The protest démonstration de- liberals and American Federation of Labor fakers, forced to “deplore” Jace, with broad decks, both open|tion because they dared to lead the revolt of the textile slaves of the |and covered, and a magnificent ball room accommodating 1,500 dancers. | Manville-Jenckes Company against | Besides, there are any number of | exploitation and oppression so bru- ‘secluded nooks suitable for star-|tal, so merciless that one wonders | gazing. |how human beings could have ex- NEEDLE WORKERS AT BIG MEETING Then Vernon Andrade’s well |isted under such conditions, |known aid justly celebrated Negro| These three women, Vera Bush, Renaissance Orchestra has been|Amy Schechter and Sophie Melvin, signed up to keep the feet of the |Wwho, after spending more than seven Red Revelers from going to sleep, | weeks in jail, have now been released \in itself an augury of exceptional |on $5,000 bail each, are coming to | entertainment which will be on tap. |New York to tell the workers of this Many hot features fit to tie em | city all the harrowing details of the jup in knots with laughter and | Gastonia strike, the Gastonia trial worthy of being “spotted” on the|and what must be done to save the big time vaudeville chain have been |23 workers from the electric chair or worked out, including a burlesque |long prison terms. And on Monday |trial the subject of which is being|night at 8 o'clock in Central Opera jkept in he dark. A divorce court, |House, 67th St. and Third Ave., the with Sam Nesin as presiding judge, | workers of New York are planning will be hauled bodily onto the boat, | to give a fitting welcome to these jand other shenanigans will be | three brave fighters for their class. |sprung on the workers as the eve-| This great Gastonia defense and re- |ning progresses, |lief mass meeting, at which the| conditions of the southern textile re- gions, are now mouthing the facts brought to international prominence by the splendid fight of the National Textile Workers Union, the Isterna- tional Labor Defense and the Work- ers International Relief in Gastonia. The bourgeois college men and bureaucrats are meeting in solemn | nounced the authorities for break- ing up the International Red Day demonstration, where 28 were ar- rested. Court stenographers took voluminous notes of the various speeches, probably with the purpose of framing up a sedition charge. Throughout the day police made | a show of preparation to repeat the Not the least guffaw-grinding three defendants will speak, has part of the bill is the costumery | been arranged by the New York Dis-| that various groups of workers are | trict of the International Labor De-| making ready for the ball. If it is fense, the Workers International Re-| at all possible to evolve anything | lief and the National Textile Work-| new under the sun — or rather, the ers Union. moon — they will evolve it, come} Among the speakers at the mieect-| hell. or high water, so rumor has! ing will be William Z. Foster, na-! it. |tional secretary of the Trade Union Jacobs’ Condition Is Still Critical Plans for making a success of the organization drive among the open cress shops, and for dealing with the gangsterism unleased by I. L. G. W. upon rank and file workers | were taken up at a spirited meeting | of active members of the Needle Workers Industrial Union. While the exact date for the opening of the organization drive was not yet given out, it is generally understood that it will begin very soon. Workers Enroll. Charles Zimmerman, head of the dress department of the Industrial Union, reported on the general sit- uation, and told of the immediate tasks in order to make the drive a suecess. A large number of the workers present enrolled as vol- unteers on the organization com. close last night with a mass meet-| It is also reported that Socrates ing at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th! Sandino, brother of General Sandino, St., which established the basis for; who was formerly a worker in New creating working class tenants’| York, has left for Vera Cruz aboard | leagues throughout the city. |the American steamer Mexico. To Organize More Leagues. To concretize the purposes of the conference and assure the completion of its main aims as summarized in a resolution unanimously passed at the! 799 Broadway, today, Alberto Mo- meeting last night a committee was| reau, secretary of the Latin Ameri- appointed to confer with other work-| can section of the League, stated ing class organizations throughout| that it completely justifies the cri- (Continued on Page Five) | (Continued on Page Five) tation at the offices of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League, Striking Hackmen Applaud Demand for Real Struggle Meeting Shows Men Losing Faith in the Three time concentrating their forces against the Siberian frontier of the U.S. S. R. Apne TRY NEW TRICK Commenting on Sandino’s depor- | IN CAR STRIKE Seek to Break Walkout by Running Busses areas NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 8—A plan to break the street car strike in progress here by operating busses and tricking the strikers into op- erating the busses, was announced by the New Orleans City Commis- sion today. They declared that the plans are “tentatively accepted.” The New Orleans Public Service Cor~ | poration, which owns the street car | line, also controls the bus lines. The rank and file declare they will fight this maneuver, although the A, F. of | (Continued on Page Five) Racketeers; Hackm en Bitterly Exploited - A growing realization that they Following Rabin’s talk a motion were being utilizzed in a scheme to| was made from the floor that these form a company union and a racket demands be taken up at once. It for the personal profit of their) was at this time that Martin, who “leaders,” was seen in a meeting of |acted as chairman, curtly made the striking taxi @rivers held last night | declaration that only the three lead-| in New Harlem Casino, 116th St.|ing racketeers could discuss de- |mands at this time. Let’s sail on the half moon with the full moon yonder, conelaye at the Institute of Public | mittee following his appeal for the |and Lenox Ave. —o In short, there is no reason to | Educational League; Jim Reid, presi- (Continued on Page Five) Conditions at the University of Vir- a iieeerie a Ate | strengthening of these forces. About 150 hackmen attended the The present movement, which was ginia and spending the main part of the day “deploring” conditions, which they pretend not to have known hitherto. When their sessions of sympathy for the southern workers are com- Do not forget our date—tonite— on the Hudson. At the Costume Ball. pleted, they will go back to their comfortable homes and colleges sat- isfied with having done their duty Chester, Pa., Seamen’ to Pick om: eg: tai doubt that from ‘\e standpoint of |dent of the National Textile Work-| | the participants, the cruise and ball|ers Union; J. Louis Engdahl, na-; | will be a howling success. Whether | tional secretary of the I. L. D.; Al- (Continued on Page Five) |fred Wagenknecht, national secre-| | tary of the W. I. R.; Charles. Alex- | ander, Negro director of the Young | Workers Industrial Union, and a Pioneer. | Zimmerman referred to the strug- gle of the dressmakers in the early part of the year under the leader- (Continued on Page Five) ° : ‘| Young Communist International ’ Assails Right We reprint herewith the cable meeting which was addressed by |initiated by Ma: +, Donnela and Jules Martin and Jess Donnela, | Murphy, is apparently petering out, sponsors of the organization which|and this was clearly revealed at calls itself the Union of Taxicab|last night’s meeting. and Bus Drivers of Greater New York. No reports of the progress Rep “Association.” | HEARING FOR 20 of the strike was made, Martin lim- |iting himself to the declaration that \“only three men have the right to The men were especially bitter against the “Hackmen’s Protective and Benevolent Association,” which yesterday distributed thousands of from the Young Communist In- | {ternational to the Young Com- |munist League of the United for the pellagra-ridden, starving | southern workers. | The Reason Why. | The International Labor Defense points out it is no marvel that the | southern workers are eager to band themselves with the Nationai Tex- | tile Workers Union, of which 23| members are in danger of electrocu- tion on long terms in prison. This is the crganization that fights with deeds, not with words, for the mill workers. The New York Times stated, “De- Delegates Atlantic Coast Meet Aug. 17-18; Conference Friday; Auto Workers Active CHESTER, Pa., Aug. 8.—A vig- orous local section of the Marine Workers League will be formed here following a conference of ma- rine transport workers to be held here Saturday, Aug. 10% at the Pro- gressive Center, 120 W. Third St. to Big Conference ‘Many Delegates at Worcester Big Shoe Conference Saturday and Sunday League to be held Aug. 17 and 18| Several hundred delegates will be) at the International Seamen’s club, Present at the Shoe and Leather Con- 28 South St. ference, to be held this Saturday and Distribute Call. |Sunday at Irving Plaza Hall, the The Atlantic Coast Conference Independent Shoe Workers will, in turn, send delegates to the 2ounced last night, WORKERS TODAY Youth Jailed Red Day; Bronx Protest Meet The 18 young workers who were jailed following a raid by Tammany police on the Bronx section head- quarters of the Young Communist League, 1472 Boston Rd., the night diseuss the demands,” referring | States dealing with the anti- Co- apparently to himself, Donnela and | Joseph Murphy, the third partner in the racket, leaflets declaring that it was not | mintern opposition in the League, associated with the strike. Hack-\ |and the anti-Party and League men charged that this “association” , Ruben- | statement presented by | enrolls members at the rate of $12 | | stein, Lurye and Welsh Cheer Real Demands, a year in return for “political pull” lon the C. 1. Address and Love- Both conversation with the men|in soft pedalling violations of traf- | | stone's expulsion. Through an and the ovation which followed the fic laws. error in the technical depart- remarks of A. Rabin, a taxi driv ‘s “Leaders”. of. the Strike, | ment words were interpolated who sharply attacked the “strike’ . which destroyed the sense of the leadership and urged concrete de- Donella and Martin, the “leaders” | chouldt ced. aa fae: jeable, whic nunciations of the southern labor Trade Union Unity Convention to The conference will form the basis | of International Red Day, will be! mands, revealed the fact that many of the present strike have been clos-| | jgwe: of the hackmen sincerely felt that er to the taxi bosses than to the) | : 3 1 they were engaged in a real fight. taxi drivers for many years. Even | Kal a aay ppoey Seon Rabin pointed out that he de- before they entered on their most) “tussle agains situation marked the sessions of the second day of the Institute of Pub- lic Affairs at the University of Vir- ginia.” But, the militant workers of the Preliminary organizational work to this end has been going on here for many months, and the confer- ence is expected to show the re- sults of this activity. ‘or a national industrial union and | will also select delegates (o the Trade | Union Unity Convention in Cleve- land, be held in Cleveland, Aug, 31-Sept 2, This historic conference will form a new, militant trade union center in the United States, Hundreds of Copies of the official brought up before the magistrate of the 161st St. and St. Ann’s Ave.! Court today on charges of “disor- derly conduct” and “inciting to riot.” They were in the huge crowd of ions and will aid N. E. C. meas- ing them out stop We . C. put categori- | cally question to supporters doc- | uments signed Rubenstein ete. recent financial adventure, the | “White Horse” cut-rate taxi fleet, they were engaged in business ac- tivities, Here's Donella’s record: mand for the 45 per cent cgmmis- |sion instead of the present per jcent rate is not worth fighti for, and listed the demands of théjTaxi Chauffeurs Union of Greatey ,New | | At this conference delegates will land are not deluded by these ex-|he selected for the Atlantic Coast | call for the larger conference will Only a few tickets left for the | Workers demonstrating against im- be distributed here in the next few | Moonlite Cruise, Get yours in ad- | Perialist war and for the defense of For a short time driver for the Black and White Taxi Company. Ni York, principally the orga; | of garage committees, the ht- | because support of document in- | | compatible with League member- | (Continued on Page Five) Conference of the Marine Workers (Continued on Page Five) e | Yamce, . (Continued on Page Five)... ! , hour day, compensation, et | ® (Continued on Page Five) 4